{"id":37029,"date":"2019-05-16T01:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37029"},"modified":"2019-05-16T01:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T01:03:40","slug":"space-force-its-back-and-its-still-a-dumb-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37029","title":{"rendered":"Space Force: It’s back and it’s still a dumb idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I cannot believe they’re talking yet again about forming another military branch, this one based in outer space.<\/p>\n

On second thought, yes I can<\/em> believe it.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is pitching the goofy idea one more time. He says we need a “space force”<\/a> to protect us against pirates who’ll attack us from beyond our atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Oh, please help me. Give me strength.<\/p>\n

How many times must we say this? The United States already has a military branch — several of them, actually — committed to defending us from outer space attack.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Air Force<\/em> has a Space Command led by a four-star general. The U.S. Navy<\/em> also has dedicated qualified personnel to monitor the great beyond from ships at sea as well as at naval air stations positioned around the world. The U.S. Army<\/em> has long deployed units committed to high-tech air defenses.<\/p>\n

What in the world are talking about here?<\/p>\n

The proposed U.S. Space Force is redundant. It is duplicative of tasks already being done.<\/p>\n

The Space Force idea does have its fans. Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX guru, is all in. “It’s cool,” he said, to have a Space Force, noting that they scoffed in the 1940s when the Air Force was split off from the Army.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump wants to create this force as a national security matter. He signed a directive calling for additional study of the issue.<\/p>\n

Whatever. A Space Force is still a nutty notion.<\/p>\n

We do not need to form yet another military service branch. I’m tellin’ ya, the military we have on duty at this time — the most potent fighting force in human history — is quite capable of defending us against space pirates.<\/p>\n\n

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I cannot believe they’re talking yet again about forming another military branch, this one based in outer space. On second thought, yes I can believe it. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is pitching the goofy idea one more time. He says we need a “space force” to protect us against pirates who’ll attack us from … Continue reading Space Force: It’s back and it’s still a dumb idea<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7943,4537,5037,5041,5049],"class_list":["post-37029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-space-force","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-air-force","tag-us-army","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37031,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions\/37031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}